MD & Director of Recruitment
Does your job ad actually explain anything? Imagine your perfect candidate, that digital marketing unicorn you’ve been hoping to hire, reads your job advert and then decided not to apply. This can easily be avoided! Follow these 5 steps for excellent job advert writing: Company Overview Responsibilities Location Salary Benefits 1. Company Overview More and […]
Would you apply for a job based just on the benefits package? While hiring a leadership role for an established online business, I found the job came with a highly desirable salary but a negligible benefits package. When queried, I discovered they wanted to enable their chosen hire to personalise their own benefits package. If […]
Oh no, are we really talking politics? Let me make it clear that if you’re looking for a debate on Brexit or global politics, you won’t find it here. There’s enough in the media reporting on politicians feeding our uncertainty, irrespective of whether it’s about Trump, Corbyn, May or Jong-un. I want to sew a […]
Our partnership with the UK’s biggest parenting website… It started like the preamble to parenting… Introduced by a mutual acquaintance we’d previously hired an SEO pro for, Netmums now wanted us to replicate that hiring success for them! Identifying, recruiting and onboarding a quality SEO Manager is challenging at any time but when you’ve got […]
When expanding a start-up, finding the right marketing candidate is critical… Not just for the time, energy and cost it takes but the impact a new hire has. They can make or break the culture and even affect the success of a fledgeling company. This recruitment project was important to get right. Perhaps we felt […]
Maybe you’ve already discovered your craft… With the aim of inspiring digital marketing jobs seekers, aspiring freelancers and the trailblazing entrepreneurs amongst you, we’ve tracked down accomplished industry professionals from a range of sectors to talk us through their own marketing career journeys in this new series of blog posts. This time we were lucky enough to interview Mark Rofe! […]
Luke’s had an extraordinary start to 2019… Until now, Luke had been successfully steering his career through agency life. However more recently, he’d begun to yearn for something different. He’s now achieved this goal by moving into a clientside role as interim Head of SEO for Netmums! With a progressive career of mainly of agency […]
Can a job change ever be relaxing? I find it extremely flattering when a former hiring manager or interviewer reaches out to clockworkTalent for support in their own job search. A good recruiter will never directly approach employees of a client they’ve hired for, it’s unethical. But it’s perfectly acceptable for an employee of said […]
It was all so going well… then they opened your CV Your CV is the most important component of any job application, so it needs to be right. I read thousands of CV’s every month and can be put off a seemingly good application in seconds. Here are some easy things to do to get […]
Whether it’s a LinkedIn profile or blog post, readability is key… To land the job of your dreams, you need to demonstrate how much it means to you. You can do this through your education, a day job or your side hustle. These activities are what will differentiate you from the other job applicants considered. […]
